Clasp



(No Model.) I

J. H. GONATY CLASP. I

Patented May 1, 1888.

INVENTOR WITNESSE ATTORNEYS.

2o cast-oft finger.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO JAMES H. CONATY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,074, dated May 1, 1888.

Application filcd September 10, 1887. Serial No. 249,366. (No modcll to tongue from a part of the body of one of the jaws or members of the clasp.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate r 5 corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan View of my new and improved clasp. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the jaw or member of the clasp formed with the The jaw or member A is formed with the hook a, loop I), and side plates 0, in the ordinary manner. To the plates 0 the jaw B is pivoted by rivets or pins (1, passed through 25 the side platesfof the jaw 13 and the side plates 0 of the jaw A. The jaw B is formed with the outer projection, g, which closes the hook a to retain a ring or other object placed in the hook, and it is also formed with the castoff finger h, which is stamped out of the back of the; jaw B, as shown in Fig. 3, and curved downward and outward to stand parallel, or

nearly so, with the projection By forming the'cast-oft finger in this manner the member B is of less weight, contains less material, and the clasp can be produced with less labor than clasps of the usual construction.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The jaw or member of the herein-described cast-off clasp, having its cast-off finger cut from the back of the jaw and bent parallel, or nearly so, with the outer projection of the jaw or member, substantially as described.

JAMES H. CONATY.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM PENDERGAST, J OHN S. GoMIsKEY. 

